United States v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
616 F.2d 779 · 1980
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably United States v. Phillips (1981), United States v. Three Hundred Sixty Four Thousand Nine Hundred Sixty Dollars ($364,960.00) in United States Currency (1981)
51 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2 · 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Glasser v. United States · Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Aguilar v. Texas · Simmons v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Rule 29(c) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, [the defendant] has preserved her right of appellate review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A police officer may make an investigative stop of an individual if he reasonably suspects that the individual is involved in criminal activity. Probable cause is not required to justify an investigative stop; reasonable suspicion is sufficient. [Citing] United States v. Hall, 557 F.2d 1114 , 1116 (5th Cir., 1977). Nor was the stop unreasonable simply because [the officer] acted . on hearsay knowledge. Reasonable suspicion may exist on the collective knowledge of the police when there is reliable communication between the officer supplying the information and the officer acting on that information. [Citations omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“can rest upon the collective knowledge of the police when there is some degree of communication between them, instead of the knowledge of the arresting [or investigating] officer alone.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.